1971 Hill Stage Band Private lp HS Jazz Funk Folk Psych RARE

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Welcome to our "Schoolhouse Funk" Private HS, College, University Jazz Bands, Lab Bands, Stage Bands, Ensembles auction, WE COMBINE SHIPPING! :)
This week features school band jazz-funk, soul, rock, disco, psych, the private press world of High School, College, University lp's, along with a few "US Armed Forces" Jazz-Funk / Funk / Disco Modern Soul lp's, a cool way to start fresh back to school with some heavy rarities including Chaffey College - Imagination Flight 1978 lp, the never has come up Waxidermy grail "Over The Rainbow - Jerry Vevig Singers" with "If I Ever Lose This Heaven" fusion funk bomb lp, Toledo Scott High School 72 on Mus-I-Col featuring a breakbeat laden cover of "Pain", and amazing vocal cover of "What's Going On", the rare Don Ellis - New Rhythms 1972 private press lp that is as rare as it is top shelf, Barduhn 1977 lp with "Squib Cakes", The US Army Field Band "Sing Out For America" grail breaks lp, the 1975 Sam Houston Jazz Ensemble lp with Weldon Irvine jazz-funk cover, Virginia Union Contemporary Choir with spiritual jazz grail track, gospel funk, and many unknown gems, browse through, check them out, all have working soundclips!  **

Approximately 50 LP's, all originals, Look through "Seller's Other Items", all end concurrently spaced out a minute apart, and all have soundclips from the actual record!

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All soundclips used are unedited directly from the item up for sale :). See below for detailed grading!
(All records are vintage, originals, in extraordinary exceptions, it will be noted if it is a reissue multiple times. Feel free to message any questions!)

Soundclip info:  A5 "Love Song" - (folk psych vocal by Hilltones! Almost Elliot Smith vibes...), B2 "Hurt So Bad" 
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Soundclip info: B1 "Baby Blue" - (folk psych vocal by Hilltones!), B5 "Peter Gunn Theme" 
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Media Grade: VG+ 
Sleeve Grade:  EX   
Year / Label / Catalogue #:    1971  /  WFB Productions (Private Press)  / Stereo 827 
Brief Comments: The Hill School is a private boarding school located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. A prep school that used to be a feeder for Princeton, interestingly Oliver Stone was an alumni who publicly recalled hating it there. Perhaps the stifling stodgy environment gave a sort of catalyst for the school stage band to find a creative outlet, to free themselves so to speak....I can vouch for the four excellent tracks with clips, "Love Song" is a gorgeous folk-psych tune by the "Hilltones" the vocal adjacent to the stage band student group, likewise with "Baby Blue". On the instrumental jazz-funk side of things, an absolutely gorgeous rendition of that beautiful Teddy Randazzo composition "Hurt So Bad", and a grooving steamy cover of Henry Mancini's "Theme From Peter Gunn". "Woodchopper's Ball" (B3), and Sunday Morning (B4) are nicely done more traditional jazz tunes, the other vocal songs are a mixed bag, jazz vocal, folk, etc. I think "Love Song" by one of the students, is one of the best vocal folk-psych tunes I've ever heard on any school band record, it's nothing short of sublime. The instrumental jazz-funk "Hurt So Bad" is deeply moving, one of my favorite instrumental versions....Baby Blue is another student original folk psych sort of vocal track that is exceedingly impressive, and Peter Gunn is always a fun tune to hear, they do a groovy job! Not a common one, no discogs page, it has shown up before a couple of times, I can't say it has recently (say the last year or so?), it's surfaced about 4 times, which for no discogs page type records is more than expected, but that's over nearly a 20 year period. 
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